On 30/04/2008, Lanny Marcus <lannyma at gmail.com> wrote: > > Alan: Today, I removed the Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader, manufactured > October 2004, in Japan, from my daughters box. I temporarily hooked it > up in my box. The exact same problem! I could not see the contents of a > DVD-R, but, I was able to see the contents of my Knoppix Live CD, > without any problem. So, I did not bother with the PITA of removing the > DVD/CD reader from my box, and trying that one in my daughters box. > > I booted my daughters box with my Knoppix Live CD V. 5.1.1 and it also > showed the FC6 Install DVD to be blank. > > I suspect: > > (a) The Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader is not supported in this kernel or > somewhere else in CentOS 5. or > > (b) The DVD/CD reader is somewhat faulty. > > (c) However, Windows XP shows it to be "OK" and I can see the contents > of the FC6 install DVD OK, in Windoze. Also, I can boot from the CentOS5 > and FC6 Install DVD's, without any problem. And, I was able to mount the > FC6 Install DVD, in a terminal and install the RPM I wanted to install, > without any problems. Thank you, very much, for your time and ideas! Lanny - Thanks for the update. I would recommend, therefore, that you replace the CD/DVD-ROM with a modern DVD writer that can cope with CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW, etc, formats. When I refurbished this workstation, a Dell OptiPlex GX1 (manufactured last quarter 1999 :-D ), I replaced its original CD-ROM drive with a multi-format AOpen DVD/CD rewritable optical drive, model no. DUW1616L and have had absolutely no problem with it at all. I seem to recall it cost me UK£41-00. However once you've done the conversion at the current exchange rate, I don't know if you will think that is good value - or not. As for all mentions of Windoze, I would trust/believe that about as far as I could spit into a high wind! Alan. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080501/6cef765a/attachment-0005.html>